Chapter 12 Quiz

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. Washo is

The African gray parrot who could use basic symbolice concepts correct incorrect

The chimp who learned more than four hundred American Sign Language signs and could make short sentences correct incorrect

A key early sociolinguist correct incorrect

The gorilla who could make short sentences correct incorrect

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. The use of wild animals or birds of prey to represent sports teams is

phonology correct incorrect

morphology correct incorrect

symbolic correct incorrect

a sign correct incorrect

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. A creole language is

a mixed language with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue correct incorrect

a slang language correct incorrect

a pidgin language correct incorrect

a language of mixed origin that developed from complex blending of two parent languages correct incorrect

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. A pidgin language is

the same as slang correct incorrect

language of mixed origin that developed from complex blending of two parent languages correct incorrect

a mixed language with a simplified grammar that people rarely learn as a mother tongue correct incorrect

a creole language correct incorrect

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. Local colonized societies in the Americas helped in the development of

hybrid language forms correct incorrect

morphology studies correct incorrect

cognates correct incorrect

language ideology correct incorrect

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. If you were interested not only in how people are supposed to speak, but how people actually speak, what anthropological approach would you be most likely to adopt?

ethnography of speaking correct incorrect

phonology correct incorrect

biolinguistic anthropology correct incorrect

stratigraphy correct incorrect

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. According to ethnopoetics, what is true of every speech act?

all speech acts are poetry correct incorrect

all speech acts are ideal correct incorrect

all speech acts are performances correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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. The combination of language, morality, and identity is called

slang correct incorrect

pidgin correct incorrect

creole correct incorrect

language ideology correct incorrect

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. Animals communicate through

language correct incorrect

call systems correct incorrect

American Sign Language correct incorrect

symbolism correct incorrect

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. The study of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society is called

sociolinguistics correct incorrect

phonetics correct incorrect

linguistics correct incorrect

speech pathology correct incorrect

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. Linguistic relativity is

the idea that people speaking different languages perceive the world differently correct incorrect

the idea of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society correct incorrect

the ideologies people have about the superiority of one dialect or language and the inferiority of others correct incorrect

the idea that because some languages are more complex their speakers are smarter correct incorrect

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. In her work on gender and language in the workplace, what did Robin Lakoff pay close attention to when analyzing speech?

tone correct incorrect

volume correct incorrect

intonation correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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. When people assume that if you speak with a southern accent you are not well educated, they are acting on

symbolism correct incorrect

language ideology correct incorrect

discrimination correct incorrect

racism correct incorrect

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. Philology is

the idea of how sociocultural norms and contexts shape language use in society correct incorrect

the idea that people speaking different languages perceive the world differently correct incorrect

ideologies people have about the superiority of one dialect or language and the inferiority of others correct incorrect

the approach that compares ancient texts and documents to analyze long-term linguistic change correct incorrect

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. Which scholar believes that language is the symbolic guide to culture?

Clifford Geertz correct incorrect

Edward Sapir correct incorrect

Renato Rosaldo correct incorrect

Benjamin Lee Whorf correct incorrect